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...Harvard tech community suffered its deepest shock in recent years with the death of a man whose name is unknown to many on the campus, but who was a bulwark of Harvard theater: longtime Technical Director of Harvard College Theatre Programs Alan P. Symonds...
...called stewards of globalization - namely, the G-7, the imf and the world's major central banks - are now focused on implementing policies that would temper worrisome global imbalances. But we can no longer count on an abundance of cheap money sloshing around the world to act as a bulwark against calamity and push asset prices higher. Financial market conditions today are more treacherous, margins for error are smaller, and even if there is a miraculous resolution of current geopolitical tensions any sigh of relief by investors is likely to be fleeting. The days of making easy money on risky...
Murtha's candidacy puts House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in a particularly delicate position. Pelosi, a bulwark of her party's left wing who has her eye on becoming the first woman Speaker of the House, won the bitter 2001 race for Democratic whip by 23 votes over Hoyer--with Murtha as her campaign manager. They have stayed tight. But sources close to Pelosi say she had nothing to do with Murtha's surprising announcement; sources close to Hoyer suggest they don't believe that...
...government was widely viewed as initially encouraging the cartoon protests as a way of reminding Washington of the extremist danger against which Musharraf is a bulwark, before cracking down when the protests turned against him. Even then, in the capital, the police proved unable to prevent a banned rally from going ahead. Some Pakistani analysts believe Musharraf is more vulnerable now than at any time since he seized power in a 1999 coup as he faces the combined challenges of foreign jihadists, tribal secessionists, indigenous Islamists and the liberal opposition...
...many Israelis, he was a builder and a bulwark; for Palestinians, a destroyer and a deterrent. TIME invited an international panel of experts to reflect on the Prime Minister's place in history and the prospects for peace when he is gone...